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With the local good and the great flocking in, we’d recommend you get down to Saltine to experience a small slice of real quality cooking.

The Inevitables, the band made up of Obi Fernandez, Alex Stern, Vinnie Fiorello, John DeDeominici, Matt Appleton, and Roger Rivas, have signed to Bad Time Records. The band has also released there a new song called “Chemist”. The song will be on their upcoming album which will be out next summ...

Today marks the release of Toronto-based Amy Gabba and The Almost Famous’ new album, Screaming At The Top of My Lungs. The album is out now on Jump Up Records and features twelve outstanding tracks that showcase the bands versatility and knack for incredible songwriting. There is truly something ...

(Self-released, digital) Two decades ago, Upper Valley four-piece Shy Husky might have had some company in the local music scene. The '90s-loving alt-rock outfit flies...

Tommy Crawford has become known for his work as both an actor and a musician. That mix of theater and song has been with him pretty much from the start.Theater exposed him to music in the public schools of Montclair, N.J., where he grew up. He picked...

Rich Wyman and Lisa Needham’s new song “Forgiveness” stems from an argument. “It was a big fight, and I had to leave and go out for a walk,” Needham said. “I came back, and Richard...

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...

After a long journey filled with vinyl pressing delays, The Abruptors are just one day away from releasing their much-anticipated album Noticeably Cheerless. Their second album sees the Buffalo-based band perfecting their soulful ska sound as they dive deep into anxiety, depression, loneliness, and ...

Creativity isn’t something a person can just lock away, not without consequences.After recording an album when she was 25, Lisa Piccirillo had set aside writing music for a decade and a half for all the usual reasons: Other jobs paid the bills. She...

The Year In Ska & Ska-Punk: Albums, EPs & Singles not to miss from 2020 Ska never went away, but theres more widespread interest for the genre right now than there has been in a while. Nostalgia tends to move in 20-ish year cycles and its been about two decades since skas last peak in popularity died down, enough time has passed for the unfair stigma to fade away, and the anti-racism aspect of ska hits hard after four years of having Trump as a president. But its not just timing; theres an incr...